Meg Whitman in California exemplifies immigration hypocrisy

Will Arizona's immigration law motivate Latino voters?
Groups that have been working to increase Turnout among Hispanic Voters are pondering this question: Are they mad enough? This Story View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story This Story Polls predict low Turnout among Latinos in November, but Hispanic Civil Rights and civic participation organizations are hoping outrage over "Anti-Immigrant" Rhetoric and the uptick in laws targeting Illegal Immigrants will counter apathy in the electorate. The groups are...

Undocumented workers: essential but unwanted
If Meg Whitman loses the gubernatorial race because her actions didn't jive with her words on Illegal Immigration, she could become a sacrificial lamb for the rest of us. Her sin is our sin. Because where Illegal Immigration is concerned, we are all hypocrites. At the second gubernatorial debate held in Fresno two weekends ago, Democratic nominee Jerry Brown had a field day with Whitman's less than elegant response to the revelation that she had employed a maid, Nicandra Diaz Santillan, who...

THE WAY CALIFORNIANS LIVE, LEGAL AND ILLEGAL (Richard Reeves)
Los Angeles -- Illegal Immigration has become an issue, perhaps briefly, in the California gubernatorial election because it turns out the Republican Candidate employed a Mexican lady as a nanny-housekeeper for nine years. Then, going into politics, Meg Whitman fired Nicandra Diaz Santillan. Ms. Diaz put it this way: "She threw me away like a piece of garbage." Ms. Whitman, who has been saying employers should be punished for hiring the undocumented, says she never knew Ms. Diaz had...

Aide to rival calls California's Whitman a 'whore'
California’s personal and unpleasant Governor’s race just took another step toward the bottom as a tape emerged in which an aide to Democrat Jerry Brown calls Republican Meg Whitman a “whore” for her attempts to get Endorsements from Law Enforcement. The Los Angeles Times was given the tape of an answering machine message from Brown to a Law Enforcement group. Brown apparently didn’t hang up, and so a private conversation was captured on tape. The Times’ blog...

Does Sandoval Have a Whitman Problem?
KTVN-2 is reporting that Nevada Gubernatorial Candidate Brian Sandoval (R), who is running well ahead of challenger Rory Reid (D), may have hired an undocumented Immigrant as a housekeeper 13 years ago. Ben Smith : "The political problem -- shared by Meg Whitman and Lou Dobbs -- really stems from the combination of the charge of having employed an Illegal Immigrant and having taken a notably hard line on the issue, though unlike Whitman, Sandoval denies it."

Sandoval has a Whitman problem?
In Nevada, a woman comes forward saying she did some housekeeping for the family of the Republican nominee for Governor, Brian Sandoval, who claims in turn that he doesn't know her. Sandoval, running strong against Rory Reid, has taken a fairly hard line on Immigration, backing the new Arizona law.  The political problem -- shared by Meg Whitman and Lou Dobbs -- really stems from the combination of the charge of having employed an Illegal Immigrant and having taken a notably hard line on...

California Statewide Law Enforcement Association
CSLEA's Endorsement of Meg Whitman for Governor came down to just one final item: We don't know which Jerry Brown we'd have for the next four years, and we can't afford to take that risk. Our members' lives, families, and the public's safety are at a critical juncture.   If there were any lingering doubts about our decision, they were put to rest in a San Francisco Chronicle interview with the Attorney General just this past Saturday. The following are the three most revealing excerpts: ...

Italy's crackdown on Gypsies reflects rising anti-immigrant tide in Europe
Source: WaPo MILAN - This venerable city, long known for savory saffron risotto and the leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish itself as something else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies. Sarkozy's planned crackdown on Illegal Immigration is introduced as Legislation Anti-Gypsy campaigns in neighboring France have sparked international criticism, with officials there in recent months deporting more than 1,000 ethnic Roma - a clannish people migrating west in large numbers from...

Illegal immigrants draft legal plans in case of deportation
Illegal Immigrants nervous about stronger enforcement have started drawing up legal documents to spell out what they want to happen to their families and belongings if they are deported. Attorneys in New Mexico , Arizona and Texas say Illegal Immigrants began approaching them for help preparing the documents as the national debate over Immigration heated up in recent months. "There's a culture of fear out there," says Jason Mills, a Fort Worth Immigration attorney who was not asked for such...

The Crisis in a Nutshell: Illegal Immigrants In the Backyard
“Why not make it a felony for Illegal employers who hire Illegal aliens?” — Lou Dobbs , in April, 2006 “I looked after Dobbs’s horses while I was Illegal.” — Marco Esperanza “I never, ever used a contractor as a way in which to indirectly hire an Illegal Immigrant purposefully. Never, never, never.” — Lou Dobbs “We have to prosecute Illegal aliens and criminal Illegal aliens in all of our cities, in every part of...

Nevada Woman Says Republican Candidate Brian Sandoval Hired Her Before she had Legal Status
Gubernatorial Candidate Republican Brian Sandoval, right, during a debate against Democrat opponent Rory Reid, left, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, in Las Vegas. (Credit: AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) Updated: 1:38pm ET California Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman's isn't the only Republican facing housekeeper woes : Republican Brian Sandoval - who is running for Nevada Governor - is now facing similar accusations. CBS affiliate Channel 2 News in Reno reports that Ana Padilla, a Guatemalan...

(GOP) Gubernatorial Candidate Denies Employing Illegal Immigrant (NV)
Source: KLAS News 8 Las Vegas -- A Reno woman is coming forward claiming she was an Illegal Immigrant when she worked as a housekeeper in Brian Sandoval's home. The Guatemalan Immigrant says Sandoval never asked for her Work Permit when she worked for the Republican Gubernatorial Candidate 13 years ago. The Sandoval campaign denies ever knowing Reno resident Anna Padilla, but Padilla says she's coming forward now, speaking first to Reno Spanish radio stations because Sandoval's stance on...